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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
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    Anton Szandor LaVey
    “It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”
    ― Anton LaVey
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    Alan Moore
    “Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
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    Alan Moore
    “We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
    tags: progress
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    Alan Moore
    “That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: absurd
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    Anton Szandor LaVey
    “I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.”
    ― Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible
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    Anton Szandor LaVey
    “Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love.”
    ― Anton LaVey
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: advice, dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, practicality, problem
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    Philip K. Dick
    “You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    tags: identity, life, science
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Everything in life is just for a while.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
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    Philip K. Dick
    “A man is an angel that has gone deranged.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: absurd
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

    [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
    tags: education, intellectuals, intelligence
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."

    [Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]”
    ― Slavoj Žižek
    tags: brainwashing, communism, evil, society, stalinism, totalitarianism
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek
    tags: harassment, intolerance, liberalism, sexual-harassment, tolerance
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
    tags: ontology, philosophy, psychology, reality
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  • #24
    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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  • #25
    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Groucho Marx
    “Whatever it is, I'm against it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Groucho Marx
    “While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: money
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    Groucho Marx
    “If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
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    Groucho Marx
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: attributed-no-source
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